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Cover to comic book, Is This Tomorrow.Catechetical Guild, 1947.Andrew Fink, a student at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA), has won First Prize in the 2010 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest for An Interdisciplinary Survey of 20th Century Propaganda.After a two year hiatus, the contest was reinstated under the joint leadership of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, the Center for the Book, and the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, with major support from the Jay I … …

Walker, photographed by George Bernard Shaw.Photo courtesy of the Emery Walker TrustMany people have heard of William Morris. Those with an interest in fine printing or fine binding will know the names of St. John Hornby and T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. Few, however, remember the man who had more influence on the design of modern books than any of these great craftsmen: Sir Emery Walker (1851–1933) … …

DRAKE, David. Some Golden Harbor. NY: Baen Books, 2006.Cover by Steve Hickman.For conspiring against the government of Cinnabar, her family was massacred; she is the sole survivor. She’s a scholar, a librarian turned Signals Officer who has joined Daniel Leary, a lieutenant in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy (RCN) to battle against treacherous politicians, the Alliance, rebels, and all manner of galactic grief and peril … …

Yale Law Library’s Photo Of The Now Withdrawn Tranquilizer.(Images Courtesy of Above The Law.)The story broke September 13, 2010 in the online legal tabloid, Above The Law: Yale Law School’s Lillian Goldman Law Library was circulating a previously untested stress reliever for frazzled Esquires-In-Training … …

[HUNTER, Evan]. JUDSON, Dean. Sin Dealer.N.p. [Chicago]: Pillar Books [Greenleaf Publications] PB 813, 1963.Cover by Harold W. McCauley.From Books to Boudoirs! Luscious Leigh Wentworth was an expert at selling the valuable tomes in her store and adding to her volumes of forbidden experiences in her sin-scented bedroom! The price was high – in money for the books and in evilly twisted misbehavior for her body … …

SCHACHNER, Nat. Space Lawyer. NY: Gnome Press,1953.Cover by Ric Binkley.”Nat Schachner’s first science fiction novel in book form is delightfully different reading for the thousands of readers who are becoming tired of the many involved and stereotyped stories of science fiction being published today … …

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)Lady Lilith, 1866-68 (altered 1872-73) Oil on canvas. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935.Lilith, the subject of this painting, is described in Judaic literature as the first wife of Adam.She is associated with the seduction of men and the murder of children … …

Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend (Kelmscott Press, 1892)The Industrial Revolution had a profound effect on the world of books: mechanization made it possible to produce thousands of copies of a work quickly and inexpensively. The upside of mass production was the increased availability and affordability of books; the downside was shoddy materials and workmanship … …

The Street Fair/La Feria. An Illustration From: Crossing The Street Tales of The Portola,By Kate Connell and Oscar Melara.(All Images Courtesy Of The Portola Branch Library ofSan Francisco Public Library.)The Portola– the natives pronounce it: “POR’ da la”– is a working-class neighborhood of San Francisco at the southeast rim of the city … …

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